The left eye has not yet healed from inflammation. Now it is also the turn of the right eye. The doctor prescribes a tube of eye gel. The pharmacy assistant sympathizes when she sees my inflamed eyes. Am I in pain? Will she read the package insert? She also shows me how to apply the gel. I go home relieved. There it turns out that we forgot one thing: I can’t see how to open the safety closure of the tiny tube.
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A version of this article also appeared in the newspaper of September 15, 2022